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...writing this week's cover story on the state of world Communism. Tinnin's tour amounted to a cram course in the style and strains of life in the East bloc. To his surprise, the biggest payoff came during a cocktail party in Bucharest. There he overheard a Communist official say that copies of a detailed secret document spelling out the agenda for the summit meeting in Moscow had been sent to party central committees all over the world. Tinnin quickly sent a cable informing the TIME-LIFE News Service, urging correspondents working on the cover...
Here is an actual conversation overheard at lunch and at breakfast the next...
...Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint can be traced back to a fictive lament written when he was 26. The film version of Goodbye, Columbus is wise enough to preserve his undeniable assets: the sexual candor, the sour salt of Jewish skepticism, the ear that has overheard everything and forgiven nothing. The movie goes astray occasionally, not because it is too faithful to Roth's text, but because it imitates other films, notably The Graduate. A pity. Goodbye, Columbus is stronger on dialogue and longer on humanity...
...overheard me tell another that I went to Radcliffe. "A Cliffie!" he shrieked in disbelief. "Honest to God? I didn't think you girls lowered yourselves to come to these things...
...fact, few boys seemed to be trying to meet girls at all. Either they cruised around the room aimlessly, or they appeared to be having token conversations. I overheard the usual, "What courses are you taking?" "When I was in Europe last summer. . . ." "Do you know. . . ." But nothing more substantial or personal than that...